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Guthrie Govan, Michael Romeo, the guitarist from Extreme. Doubt any of them would want to join this trainwreck though.

Sadly if Ron leaves, Axl will most likely not get another guitarist with as much talent. Bucket is never coming back despite Axl's efforts, Bucket wants absolutely nothing to do with Guns whatsoever. If Ron does leave, I can see Axl auditioning guitarists like Michael Romeo who has insane talent but is not the right fit for Guns. Part of Bucket's genius was he is an amazing shredder but can also slow it down and create melodic passages. Ron probably has better technical ability than Bucket but for me, does not seem to have the melodic ear that Bucket has.

A sociopath passes a polygraph every time.

Is that true?

MSL just spews fabrications.

But why was Zutaut promised a huge bonus if he was able to somehow get the album out by 2001 I believe? Why promise a producer/manager a pay-for-performance fee and then hold up the process? It doesn't make any sense.

This. The notion that the record label refused to release the album in 2000/01/02/03/whatever is absolute fallacy. They released a god damn Greatest Hits record just to recoup the money they poured into Chidem and offered producers bonuses if they had a finished record out by a certain time. That is not a sign of a label that rejected anything.

having axl doing a 13 minute version of KOHD is way worse. i don't even like the current lineup, so i don't really care.

13 minute KOHD??? He could do 3 other songs instead of that sleep inducer!

'Does DJ Ashba have the memory of a fruit fly and suffer the delusions of a man on his third day lost in the sahara? I am worried for his demented sanity since claims the setlists are unpredictable and never follow the same pattern and there is apparently too much new material to make a new record from.'

Whenever someone asks me an important question, I think "What would Ashba say?". Then I say the opposite.

Maybe there will be WWAD bracelets soon.

I think Axl needs to fly to NYC and appear on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy is a huge GNR fan, so I think Axl should give him an interview.

Absolutely. Fallon did a great service to the new band at the 2002 VMAs.

Maybe Axl knows that night would inevitably be brought up, and prefers to forget it.

I would go as far as saying that Fallon's GnR announcement is the greatest thing about the 2002 VMA's. He was genuinely fucking stoked and it was very infectious. I still maintain the performance itself was pretty poor, but the sheer mystique about it was fantastic and Fallon contributed to that a lot.

Axl was fucken terrible in it except for Madagascar. Paradise City and Jungle sucked vocally, it was embarrassing. Obvious that he did not prepare for such a momentous occasion.

Will Axl Rose be at this Q&A? If not, who the hell cares?

Lol, don't be ridiculous! We can't expect the leader of a band to do anything that requires a bit of effort! That's what his underlings are for!

Amazing. Axl was on fucken fire that whole tour but I think because it was pro-shot he went the extra mile with his stage performance. What we have today is a faint shadow of 2006/07 Axl.

Didn't Axl tell Dave to "play with more soul" while he was tracking his solo for OMG?

Serj says the making an album cycle requires 3 years! He is talking shit because he put out 3solo records in 2012 and 2013!

I get the feeling this is one of those reunions that's just for the money :/ Serj really doesn't seem interested in working with the rest of the band, which is sad whenever a band does that. Even in the case of GNR I think that'd be a bummer, if Axl just toured with Slash & co. and then refused to make music with them (though it might be preferable to the current situation).

The Faith No More reunion seemed like a cash grab also. Going by Serj's musical direction, I don't think he is interesting in being confined under the SOAD sound and umbrella....

Tool also take an excessive amount of time off inbetween albums. It has been 8 years since their last record and the new record probably is not coming out this year. AC/DC have released like 15 albums in their career and are in the twilight years of their career though, so the comparison to Guns N' Roses is not really valid.

Yes. It's easy to go crazy reading Tool album "updates" and "news".

But apparently they - and AC/DC - are working on something.

Similar situation with System of a down. The band are all willing to make a new record but it is the lead singer Serj who is not really going for it. Very strange.

Mezmerize/Hypnotize are 2 of my favourite albums ever. Elect the Dead was really good, but I thought Serj's last 2 albums were so-so. Love the Scars On Broadway album, then they were supposed to bring out a 2nd album, they had that single "Fucking", and then SOAD got back together (and I still haven't seen them! No UK dates apart from festival shows). Saw Serj solo back in 2012, good show, only did one SOAD song (Aerials for the encore).

Dammit I want more SOAD.

Serj says the making an album cycle requires 3 years! He is talking shit because he put out 3solo records in 2012 and 2013!

Rock in Rio III Madagascar was the song that got me into Guns N' Roses! I think it's a very underrated song. I fucken absolutely love it.

Tool also take an excessive amount of time off inbetween albums. It has been 8 years since their last record and the new record probably is not coming out this year. AC/DC have released like 15 albums in their career and are in the twilight years of their career though, so the comparison to Guns N' Roses is not really valid.

Yes. It's easy to go crazy reading Tool album "updates" and "news".

But apparently they - and AC/DC - are working on something.

Similar situation with System of a down. The band are all willing to make a new record but it is the lead singer Serj who is not really going for it. Very strange.

Tool also take an excessive amount of time off inbetween albums. It has been 8 years since their last record and the new record probably is not coming out this year. AC/DC have released like 15 albums in their career and are in the twilight years of their career though, so the comparison to Guns N' Roses is not really valid.

Ashba will be replaced by Michael Romeo :

Robin giving us the heads-up (April '07): http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/93790-robin-finck-comments-on-canceled-shows/

Trent confirms it (April '08): http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/111451-finck-taking-another-break-from-gnr/page-1

Thanks Bonham.

I strongly believe Finck was out well before the albums release in 2008. If we remember correctly his name was removed from the band's Myspace page which prompted someone to ask Del James about Finck in which he replied "Only Robin knows what Robin is doing" or something to that extent. During Bumblefoot's interview with Eddie Trunk weeks/days before the launch a caller asked Ron if Robin was still in the band and Ron skipped the question. I remember Robin writing about his disappointment about the 2007 tour being cut? Anyone have an exert of that?

Eddie Trunk is the new Kurt Loder to Axl. Eddie kisses way more ass than Kurt so it is only natural for Axl to be more open to being interviewed by Trunk.

Thats actually not true at all. Eddie is very good friends with Slash and Axl knows that. I don't think Axl is against Eddie, but I also don't think Eddie is the new Kurt. Eddie doesn't kiss ass usually, and he doesn't ever really say anything positive or negative about the band. Sure, he did an interview with Axl right after a show and said the show was amazing, but any human would say that in that position as well. Eddie is very critical and I don't think keeps up with Guns to talk about Axl's declining voice, etc. They aren't Kiss to him, which he follows closely.

Kurt kissed so much more ass, and good for him because it always got him interviews with the elusive Axl Rose.

Probably right. Any idea why he is SOOOO aggressive about current Kiss? He is really passionate about them NOT using Space Ace and Catman make up.

Eddie Trunk is the new Kurt Loder to Axl. Eddie kisses way more ass than Kurt so it is only natural for Axl to be more open to being interviewed by Trunk.

He interviwed Axl in 2006 at the VMAs. I think that was the last time he interviewed Axl.

I think it was John Norris who interviewed Axl at the VMAs in 2006. Kurt did the post-show interview in 2002, which would make it his last interview with Axl.

That is what I thought. I don't think Loder interviewed Axl after 2002.

Howard Stern would be the best person to interview Axl because he'd never agree to certain questions being off limits.

Indeed. Howard has this thing where he asks the hard questions but also sucks up to the interviewee which loosens up the interviewee into answering. I have noticed this throughout his whole career. Great interviewer.

Axl was fucken perfect in 2006/07. Glad I got to see him tour in 2007. Looking back now, he was under-appreciated during the time. Some like the 2010 vocals better but he was in way better shape in 2006/07 and seemed to have more passion. 2011-2014 is a fucken trainwreck compared to either 2010 or 2006.

He is nice to the fans. When I saw him at the Melbourne show in 2013 he actually went into the crowd to a fan who was in a wheel chair and gave him his guitar to play around with for a while. Pretty cool gesture.

A supposed 'insider' told me Axl had vocal chord surgery after the 2010 tour against medical advice. Not sure if it is totally true but would explain a hell of alot.

Current band has been together for 5 years, still hasn't recorded together in the same room. NIce.

Yet some people say this band has more chemistry than the classic line up..........and that this band has been together longer than the classic line up.......

GNR haven't been forthcoming in terms of records since the Appetite days. Even UYI was somewhat of a drawn out creative process.

It doesn't matter how much chemistry a line-up has - the possibility of a record ultimately resides with Axl having a burst of inspiration.

Really? Maybe my memory is poor, but I remember Axl and the band being very forthcoming about the albums back in the late 80s and 90s. I remember Axl doing interviews where he talked about wanting to release a double album. This would have been after Appetite broke, so probably 89 or 90ish.

And drawn out creative process? Appetite really broke in 1988 and the band toured for the entire year of 88 and for half of 89. Lies was released in 1989. The band hit the studio in 1990 and released a double album in 1991. They then broke world wide touring records but still managed to release another record in 1993.

Four albums. Six years. Lots of interviews with every major publication. Numerous music videos. And world record breaking tours.

Your recollection of what went down from 1988 through 1993 is much different than how I remember it. Did you live in a small city or not in the states maybe, so you didn't have access to MTV and all the rock magazines that were around back then?

BOOM! This.